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...first, unless you want to be disappointed with every other site. For diversity of coral life per square foot, no other place matches it. Preserving that supremacy, at least in the tiny chink of the sea that belongs to her native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba off Jordan's 16 miles of southern coast...
...came to her passion through aversion. "I used to be petrified of the sea," she confides. A major in the Jordanian army, Basma had just completed her parachuting course in 1993 when her commanding officer teased her, "Ha, ha, but you'll never learn to dive." Rising to the challenge, she became the first Jordanian woman to qualify as a navy diver. And she licked her fear. "I was afraid because I didn't know what was below the surface of the water. Now I know," she says...
School bells were ringing, and young royalty was off to rub elbows with untitled folk. Britain's Princess Anne, 13, and Jordan's Princess Basma, 12, were at boarding school at Benenden, 42 miles from London. Would they make their own beds? panted reporters. Of course. And would Radcliffe's first royal student, Sweden's Princess Christina, 20? Yes, she nodded wearily to Boston newsmen. Having attended to the questions, the blonde princess set about orienting herself, and so did Harvard students. Turned out that pretty Christina had brought along from Sweden her own toughest competition...
Best of all, the Turkish government has just invited Eyuboglu and his wife, who is also a painter, to design basma-printed cloth often worn as a headdress by Moslem women-for production by the Turkish textile industry. This project, says Eyuboglu, "will make art available to thousands of the people; it is multiple...